Endangered Languages: Maps & Atlases

"A series of excellent color maps charts the origin and development of languages throughout the world, revealing both the linguistic histories of particular cultures and the ideas and cultures represented within the language's structure."

"The data presented here--in text, tables, and 129 maps--has been gathered with the goals of illuminating the mechanisms of linguistic change, encouraging more detailed study of regional and continental characteristics and trends, and launching similar studies into change in other languages, on other continents."

"Contains 142 full-color maps reproduced onto two-page plates as the centerpiece of as many chapters devoted to an in-depth discussion of each map's content by a specialist in the field. Relying on the data of published primary sources and the authors' own expertise, the maps present more than 58,000 data points, or language-feature pairs, concerning the distribution of more than 200 languages."